Posted on 10/06/2008 3:56:05 PM PDT by az4vlad
Overall, 16.5% of violent crimes in Maricopa County can be linked to illegal immigrants. The average cost for each offense? A whopping $20,000, which includes prosecution, incarceration, and other costs. This study breaks down felonies committed into categories, revealing that contrary to media myths, illegal immigrants commit more crimes in categories completely separate from the crime of illegally crossing the border. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has released a groundbreaking study with the help of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office breaking down the numbers of felonies illegal immigrants in Maricopa County commit. Contrary to media myths, illegal immigrants commit more felonies than the rest of the population on average. Even when crimes that may be related to smuggling are taken out of the equation, illegal immigrants still commit most felonies at higher rates. Illegal immigrants make up 9% of the population in Arizona, but are sentenced to 20.3% of all felony DUIs.
Illegal immigrants are sentenced for 10.3% of sex crimes, 13.1% of auto thefts, and 12.6% of all thefts including shoplifting. In crimes that might be related to illegal entry, illegal immigrants account for 35.8% of sentences for kidnapping, 85.3% of sentences for criminal impersonation/false ID, and 50% of sentences for chop shops.
Overall, 16.5% of violent crimes can be linked to illegal immigrants. The average cost for each offense? A whopping $20,000, which includes prosecution, incarceration, and other costs. 18.5% of property crimes are due to illegal immigrants.
The GAO studied 55,000 illegal immigrants and found that on average, each had been arrested for 13 offenses. 80% of the arrests occurred in California, Arizona, and Texas. It costs $61.74 per day to house a prison inmate in Arizona. Combine that enormous cost with Arizona’s tax and spend governor Janet Napolitano, and it comes as no surprise that Arizona’s economy is suffering and facing a $2 billion dollar deficit.
The reason why illegal immigrants commit more crimes may be because a large portion of them are young males. Young males of any nationality commit crimes at a higher rate than other segments of the population. The findings in this study reinforce the wisdom of shifting public policy to an approach that encourages legal immigration, which spreads out the demographics more evenly, ending unnecessary stigmas towards those south of our border in particular.
For updated news on illegal immigration, including a free weekly newsletter, visit illegalimmigrationjournal.com. For the press release on this report, click here. The full report is here; go to page 6 for the chart breakdown of crimes.
“I’m not running to do the easy things,” McCain told the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in a speech. “I defend with no reservation our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children and clean our homes a chance to be legal citizens of this country.”
What's most stunning here is not that illegals commit crimes at a greater rate than their percentage of the population.
The fact that illegals comprise 9% (e.g., 1 in 11 people) is the mind-blowing statistic. ONE IN ELEVEN! Think what this has done to our schools, our social services, not to mention our fury over having to "press one for English."
Frankly, I don't think any of us would be that excited if illegals committed crimes at the same rate, but only comprised 0.5% of the population.
“Only” 9% of the population? Excuse me, but that’s 1 illegal to 10 citizens. That’s the crime here.
Just committing the DUI’s at twice the rate Americans won’t do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006 at taxpayer expense.
Thanks for posting this. (I live in Maricopa County).
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dig this, you clown.
“The fact that illegals comprise 9% (e.g., 1 in 11 people) is the mind-blowing statistic.”
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
‘Tis sad what this country is going through.
Thank you, Juan McCain and Barack Obambi!
“Well, isn’t the liberal answer to that “Just give them all drivers licenses”?”
And beer money.
The costs of rampant crimmigration are staggering.
““I’m not running to do the easy things,” McCain told the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in a speech. “I defend with no reservation our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children and clean our homes a chance to be legal citizens of this country.””
They’re God’s Children, dontcha’ know.
btt
What is the chance that a least some of this mortgage meltdown was caused by loans to illegals? A lot I think.
"Illegal Immigrants Commit 20% of Aggravated DUIs, but make up only 9% of the Population"
(Gomer Pyle voice): Surprise, surprise, surprise!
I never thought we could elevate it to this level of visibility for the people to really have it as a key election issue in 2008.
/sarc
You know by their SILENCE ON THIS, all three of them, GOP/ DEMOCRATS/MSM, that something really NASTY is planned for the Spring of 2009.
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